College coaches who violate NCAA Bylaw 10.1, which requires them to be truthful and forthcoming about possible NCAA violations, tend to have short careers subsequent to the violation.

… Since 2006, the NCAA has sanctioned 27 schools for violating bylaw 10.1, which requires coaches and others to be truthful and forthcoming about possible NCAA violations. Of the 12 coaches involved, only one kept his job. The others either resigned or were fired by their schools.

And things didn’t turn out that well for the outlier there, either.

@DrSaturday@year2 I should say former, she was fired two years later when she couldn't rebound from the sanctions.

So Gordon Gee’s tongue bath notwithstanding, it doesn’t look like Tressel’s out of the woods yet.

By the way, Tressel’s no longer confidential source sounds like a beaut, doesn’t he?

… Cicero, who enrolled at OSU after serving in the Marines, has made news as a criminal-defense lawyer.

In 1997, the Ohio Supreme Court suspended his law license for one year because of misconduct. The lawyer led others to believe he was having sex with then-Judge Deborah P. O’Neill, who had appointed Cicero to defend a client in a criminal case.

Cicero ultimately said he overstated his intimacy with the judge and that he and O’Neill did not have sex until she stepped aside from the case. O’Neill also admitted to the sexual affair.

I’m beginning to think there’s a made-for-TV movie in Tatgate when all the dust settles.

I cannot remember a time when there were this many big public scandals going on at once in college football. I’m tallying (i) Cam Newton at Mississippi State and Auburn, (ii) Mike Leach/Texas Tech, (iii) Oregon and the recruiting consultant, (iv) North Carolina’s South Beach Boys, and (v) Ohio State. My memory goes back to about 1970.

It’s probably no coincidence that college football is a bigger money sport now than any time in its history.

I cannot remember a time when there were this many big public scandals going on at once in college football.

And yet one of the most destructive practices, that of lying to recruits and players and their families and kicking them off teams or out of school simply for getting hurt or not beating out a few other players at their position, is totally legal.

Paying young adults for their participation in a violent sport that produces billions of dollars for the schools and businesses: bad.
Lying to them and kicking them out of school: meh.

But with rosters of 85, which is more than enough to absorb injuries and busts and still field competitive teams, most coaches and schools reward student-athletes who have been injured playing for free in a violent sport the right to choose to stay with their teammates as full members of the team. Let them experience Senior Day, etc. They don’t look to exploit such situations by forcing the players off the team.

He’s probably saying that regarding tOSU, Michigan players should get a chance to have free tattoos, but next year, when LSU has the same problem, only a school that won its conference should have players get free tattoos……….

Quote Of The Day

“Being a student at Georgia and playing ball, I’ve definitely grown, widened my horizons and experienced things I never thought I would. I feel like I’ve grown on and off the field, and the university prepared me for that. I’ve done some awesome things and met some awesome people. I’ll definitely be back to finish my schoolwork, because that was a big priority for me and my family and weighed heavily on my decision. I know football won’t last forever. It’ll be great to come back and get that degree, so I can tell my kids about it one day.” — Roquan Smith, AJ-C, 3/7/18